Musical Acts that are good, but do nothing for you.

Zaph · 26-09-2019 12:30AM

mzungu wrote: »

The Smiths

Definitely. Some of their songs are actually pretty good, and in particular I like Johnny Marr's guitar playing, but dear god I wish they had a different singer. I don't care how good the song actually is, I just can't listen to Morrissey.

Arghus · 26-09-2019 12:30AM

Underground wrote: »

A lot of the acts mentioned so far have been household names in music for decades so I'll go with a more modern act that's pretty popular but I just can't get into : Death Grips. I just can't. Nope.

100%

In theory I should really like them - noisy, abrasive, intense - but, nah, just don't leave me feeling anything.

Purple Mountain · 26-09-2019 12:32AM

I simply don't 'get' Sinéad O Connor's voice.
If I won a ticket to go see her, I'd sell it.

Arghus · 26-09-2019 12:37AM

mzungu wrote: »

The Smiths

Once again, I agree. I can appreciate that Johnny Marr was a great guitar player and Morrisey was a witty and biting lyricist, with a distinctive vocal style that seemingly loads of people love and they were massively influential etc, etc - but I just can't get into them at all. The Queen is Dead is one of the most over rated albums of all time.

Say Your Number · 26-09-2019 12:52AM

A more obscure one, but Halestorm are a band I've made an effort to like but just can't, still this is a decent song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taanowedKoY

nthclare · 26-09-2019 09:22AM

Arcade Fire

I just cannot identify with their music, ironically anyone I know who is passionate about Arcade Fire seem to have personality disorders....

loyatemu · 26-09-2019 09:34AM

another vote for the Who.

All the other big guns of the 60s, I like - Beatles, Stones, Kinks, Beach Boys, Byrds, Hermanns Hermits, Yardbirds etc; but I've just never been able to get into the Who. They have a few decent singles, but a whole album of Daltrey bellowing Townsend's po-faced lyrics is just too much.

nthclare · 26-09-2019 09:41AM

loyatemu wrote: »

another vote for the Who.

All the other big guns of the 60s, I like - Beatles, Stones, Kinks, Beach Boys, Byrds, Hermanns Hermits, Yardbirds etc; but I've just never been able to get into the Who. They have a few decent singles, but a whole album of Daltrey bellowing Townsend's po-faced lyrics is just too much.

The Who's music is nearly better on advertising campaigns and movie soundtracks.

Some band's just have a particular sound that light's up people's neuro pathways...

Myself and my friend John can listen to the same deep house track, and he can hear something from it I can't hear and visa versa...

Wibbs · 26-09-2019 10:15AM

Pink Floyd. I most certainly can understand their appeal and their output and talent, but can't listen to them myself. Loyatemu's take on the Who and the "po-faced" angle would also fit Floyd for me(though there would be a fair few songs of the Who I'd like in contrast to Pink Floyd). There's an element of taking itself too seriously.

Wibbs · 26-09-2019 10:20AM

JupiterKid wrote: »

I enjoy most modern music and have a pretty eclectic taste ranging from Metallica to The Carpenters but a few musical acts I just never could get into:

The Grateful Dead
Pearl Jam
Tom Waits
AC/DC
Kiss
Early era Genesis
Early era Pink Floyd (before Meddle)
Elvis Costello
Muse
Oasis after their second album - just trotted out the same formula again and again.

I hear you in a big way with The Grateful Dead and Kiss. To my mind they're oddly and massively popular in the US, but unlike a load of US acts and many more niche, those two setups never translated into popularity beyond their shores. They're like the Saturday Night Live TV show of bands.

DaeryssaOne · 26-09-2019 10:23AM

nthclare wrote: »

Arcade Fire

I just cannot identify with their music, ironically anyone I know who is passionate about Arcade Fire seem to have personality disorders....

My favourite band of the last 10 years

bigtimecharlie · 26-09-2019 10:28AM

I would quicker listen to Elvis than the Beatles but they both are from an era before I understood musical don't get either of them.

Gregor Samsa · 26-09-2019 10:54AM

Wibbs wrote: »

I hear you in a big way with The Grateful Dead and Kiss. To my mind they're oddly and massively popular in the US, but unlike a load of US acts and many more niche, those two setups never translated into popularity beyond their shores. They're like the Saturday Night Live TV show of bands.

So true. Despite being mad into music for 30 years, I don't think I've ever heard a Grateful Dead song. Phish are another one. They just mean virtually nothing outside of the US.

Kiss, though, are just shíte. One of those "well, they're really popular in Germany" bands. Although I do feel sorry for the guy with the cat makeup.

HBC08 · 26-09-2019 11:44AM

Rothko wrote: »

I think Noel and Bonehead are good guitarists.

Noel was pretty good
Bonehead....not sure how he could be considered good whilst only playing 4 bar chords,solid maybe.
Quiggsy,acceptable if unspectacular.
Tony Mc Carroll,the worst drummer ive seen on any stage.

Now when you consider all the above Id say that would pass for a pub band being technically good but not one of the biggest bands of the decade.

Oasis are one of my favourite bands of all time and ive seen them 7-8 times but id stand by the above.

Rothko · 26-09-2019 11:52AM

Wibbs wrote: »

I hear you in a big way with The Grateful Dead and Kiss. To my mind they're oddly and massively popular in the US, but unlike a load of US acts and many more niche, those two setups never translated into popularity beyond their shores. They're like the Saturday Night Live TV show of bands.

Ted nugent is another one that I'd add to that list.

HBC08 wrote: »

Noel was pretty good
Bonehead....not sure how he could be considered good whilst only playing 4 bar chords,solid maybe.
Quiggsy,acceptable if unspectacular.
Tony Mc Carroll,the worst drummer ive seen on any stage.

Now when you consider all the above Id say that would pass for a pub band being technically good but not one of the biggest bands of the decade.

Oasis are one of my favourite bands of all time and ive seen them 7-8 times but id stand by the above.

I'd agree about Tony McCarroll but Alan White was a big improvement.

CrankyHaus · 26-09-2019 11:55AM

Wibbs wrote: »

I hear you in a big way with The Grateful Dead and Kiss. To my mind they're oddly and massively popular in the US, but unlike a load of US acts and many more niche, those two setups never translated into popularity beyond their shores. They're like the Saturday Night Live TV show of bands.

Dave Matthews Band. Massive over there. Everyone outside the states is like who?

Conversely I never understood how The Stone Roses have zero appeal in the US.

TheIrishGrover · 26-09-2019 12:04PM

Fleetwood Mac. Just can never understand they hysteria that surrounds them

Andrewf20 · 26-09-2019 12:22PM

The Beatles. Like listening to cheese.

odyssey06 · 26-09-2019 12:24PM

Andrewf20 wrote: »

The Beatles. Like listening to cheese.

Well, on the plus side they aren't in the bracket that you have to put cheese in your ears to block out the noise...

Monkey2019 · 26-09-2019 12:32PM

colm_mcm wrote: »

I might be in a minority, but I much prefer the Dylan version

Ed Sheeran does a version of it.
Its shocking

Wayne Jarvis · 26-09-2019 12:38PM

nthclare wrote: »

Arcade Fire

I just cannot identify with their music, ironically anyone I know who is passionate about Arcade Fire seem to have personality disorders....

DaeryssaOne wrote: »

My favourite band of the last 10 years

They are one of my favourite bands too Daery. Do you want to form a band called The Personality Disorders?

Chinasea · 26-09-2019 01:36PM

Annie Lennox.

Cyndi Lauper. Girls just wanna have fun. Pure torture.

Chinasea · 26-09-2019 01:39PM

Wibbs wrote: »

Pink Floyd. I most certainly can understand their appeal and their output and talent, but can't listen to them myself. Loyatemu's take on the Who and the "po-faced" angle would also fit Floyd for me(though there would be a fair few songs of the Who I'd like in contrast to Pink Floyd). There's an element of taking itself too seriously.

You need some grass in your life.

Mad_maxx · 26-09-2019 01:49PM

Autosport wrote: »

The Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, Coldplay, David Bowie, Phil Collins do absolutely nothing for me

Coldplay and Phil Collins aren't considered good

odyssey06 · 26-09-2019 01:52PM

Mad_maxx wrote: »

Coldplay and Phil Collins aren't considered good

Actually, yeah, kinda are\were...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Coldplay#Grammy_Awards
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Phil_Collins#Grammy_Awards

Phil Collins won Best Album & "Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male" at the 1986 Grammy Awards for No Jacket Required.

Coldplay have multiple wins in different categories.

Mad_maxx · 26-09-2019 01:55PM

CrankyHaus wrote: »

Wibbs wrote: »

I hear you in a big way with The Grateful Dead and Kiss. To my mind they're oddly and massively popular in the US, but unlike a load of US acts and many more niche, those two setups never translated into popularity beyond their shores. They're like the Saturday Night Live TV show of bands.

Dave Matthews Band. Massive over there. Everyone outside the states is like who?

Conversely I never understood how The Stone Roses have zero appeal in the US.

The stone roses are very British, oasis never made it in the states either, none of the britpop acts did, Coldplay made it, they have that generic nothingness which can sell anywhere

Robbie Williams (different genre entirely and not a fan btw ) is also very English and never made it in the USA

IAMAMORON · 26-09-2019 01:57PM

Thread was always going to disintegrate into an opinionated mess.

Music is subjective, you either like it or you don't. Everyone is different.

For the record I hate Chris Martin but I like his music.

I am such a coward sometimes. I think Phil Collins is massively underrated, he is painful liddle dickhead, but he makes decent music.

Mad_maxx · 26-09-2019 01:57PM

odyssey06 wrote: »

Mad_maxx wrote: »

Coldplay and Phil Collins aren't considered good

Actually, yeah, kinda are\were...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Coldplay#Grammy_Awards
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Phil_Collins#Grammy_Awards

Phil Collins won Best Album & "Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male" at the 1986 Grammy Awards for No Jacket Required.

Coldplay have multiple wins in different categories.

So have the corrs

Mad_maxx · 26-09-2019 01:59PM

IAMAMORON wrote: »

Thread was always going to disintegrate into an opinionated mess.

Music is subjective, you either like it or you don't. Everyone is different.

For the record I hate Chris Martin but I like his music.

I am such a coward sometimes. I think Phil Collins is massively underrated, he is painful liddle dickhead, but he makes decent music.

I like some of genesis with him at the helm, his solo stuff is muck

Gregor Samsa · 26-09-2019 02:00PM

IAMAMORON wrote: »

I think Phil Collins is massively underrated, he is painful liddle dickhead, but he makes decent music.

American Psycho:

Patrick Bateman wrote:

Do you like Phil Collins? I've been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that, I really didn't understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual. It was on Duke where, uh, Phil Collins' presence became more apparent.

I think Invisible Touch was the group's undisputed masterpiece. It's an epic meditation on intangibility. At the same time, it deepens and enriches the meaning of the preceding three albums. Christy, take off your robe. Listen to the brilliant ensemble playing of Banks, Collins and Rutherford. You can practically hear every nuance of every instrument. Sabrina, remove your dress. In terms of lyrical craftsmanship, the sheer songwriting, this album hits a new peak of professionalism. Sabrina, why don't you, uh, dance a little. Take the lyrics to Land of Confusion. In this song, Phil Collins addresses the problems of abusive political authority.

In Too Deep is the most moving pop song of the 1980s, about monogamy and commitment. The song is extremely uplifting. Their lyrics are as positive and affirmative as, uh, anything I've heard in rock. Christy, get down on your knees so Sabrina can see your ass. Phil Collins' solo career seems to be more commercial and therefore more satisfying, in a narrower way. Especially songs like In the Air Tonight and, uh, Against All Odds. Sabrina, don't just stare at it, eat it.

But I also think Phil Collins works best within the confines of the group, than as a solo artist, and I stress the word artist. This is Sussudio, a great, great song, a personal favorite.

Musical Acts that are good, but do nothing for you.

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